60 Maple Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Topographic or Assessor's Map
Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
23A-38 Easthampton NTH. 173
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 60 Maple Street
Historic Name: Thomas Gladden House
Uses: Present: offices
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1854-1860
Source: Map of 1860
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: parged brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.262 acres
Setting: This building faces east in a
neighborhood of residential-commercial buildings.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [60 MAPLE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Gladden House is a two-story house under a flat roof with wide eaves supported on large, paired, brackets. Italianate in
style the house is three bays wide and two deep. It has a center entry flanked by paired Italianate windows with 1/1 replacement
sash at both first and second stories. It has a portico supported on slim colonettes with respondent colonettes flanking the door.
The broad door is slightly recessed and has full-length sidelights. The portico has paired brackets at its eaves. On the south
elevation there is a one-story angled bay window with paired brackets at its eaves.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the
owners/occupants played within the community.
From Form B of 1980: “In 1850, Thomas Gladden bought lot no. 19 of Edwin Eaton’s ‘Village Lots’ for $50. The 1854 map does
not show a house on this site, but the 1860 map does, and the property remained in the Gladden family throughout the rest of
the 19th century.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873.
Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831.
Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 253-P. 317, 134-201